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Acinos multis J.B. Plentifully in Swafield Dale, about seven 
miles south of Grantham. |Calamintha arvensis Lam. 
Common. | 
Carum ayaa geen Sse in the same place. [Carum 
caruz L. An alier 
This was the Pane lost list used by Edward Forster, F.L.S., 
F.R.S., in writing his Lincolnshire list in Gough’s ‘Camden’s 
Britannia,’ 1789. 
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3 NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Nottingham Natural History Museum has recently pene the 
very ri collection of British Birds’ Eggs and Skins forivedt by Mr. F. B. 
gee Whitlock, whose ornithological writings are familiar to readers of * Th 1e 
Naturalist. "—J.W.C. 
—_—_—_#$e———_ 
We have before us reprints of Ree published in America by two old 
friends Bed supporters of our journ 
One, b yell k 
researches, details his . Investigations « on the Native Veueeaita of Alla 
Lands,’ n connection w gee rls ob gts Experiment Station of the 
University or California. The nt is from the Report of the Station for 
€ years 1895-7, and is inusteated fn eight halicdae half-tone plates of the 
various plants treated o 
puree Peon 
other paper, which is ‘On the Disruptive Discharge in Air 
Liquid Dielectrics, is a dissertation Sabuseed to the Clark University oy 
T. mondson, in fulfilment of requirements for the de of 
Doctse of “Philoss ophy. The reprint is — the February Hondas oe the 
“Physical Review,’ published in New Yor 
Si ly gk ENED 
We regret to learn of the death of the well-known lepidopterist, Mr js N 
Young, of Rotherha am, who died at that place on the 13th of Febru ruary. 
Mr. Young gh . native i ari a wi sae pe a 3 his lifetime done 
much useful w We are glad to ‘The Entomologist’ that 
his son del nt coutane as sol as Cog eet 
BOTANY OF SEDBERGH. 
Catalogue of Plants | growing in the | Sedbergh District, | 
liachailtinng 1 the | Lune Basin, from Middleton to Tebay. | wi John 
ioe Care = | Leeds: | Richard Jackson, Commercial Street : 1898. 
vo. 48]. 
This unpretending Lune Florula, for a little flora it is, 
vividly recalls the saying about hiding one’s light under 
a bushel. The author—a valued member of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union--is too modest; he is quite-too-well- 
equipped by knowledge and conscientiousness to aver sitting 
at the feet of much less careful and trustworthy observers than 
himself! The brochure is mainly what it eo to be, a mere 
June 1868, 
